Designing with components
This is a post about designers making their Sketch designs easier for developers.
Design for Devs
Design for Devs
Tools for accessible designs
This is a post about different plugins designers can use for their software to make sure their design are accessible to all.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Presumptuous Yuppy
This is a post about a horrible interview where the hiring manager hadn't read my resume.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Inappropriate Driver
This is a post about an interview that turned terrible when the hiring manager's coworker asked me out. And offered to drive me home.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Incidental Jerk
This is a post about a horrible interview I had and what it taught me about hiring managers.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The window counterer
This is a post about a horrible interview where the hiring manager hadn't read my resume.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Questionable Babysitter
This is a post about an interview that quickly went south when the interviewer referred to her employees as "the kids".
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Absent Minded Manager
This is a post about a horrible interview where the hiring manager hadn't read my resume.
Fireside Chats
Dolly Parton is immigrant music and why that resonates with me
What does Dolly Parton's music and being the daughter of immigrants has to do with my views of technology.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The Busy Body
This is a post about a horrible phone interview with an outsourced agency. The gentleman asked me for my social security number.
Fireside Chats
Interview nightmares - The New Kid on the HR Block
This is a post about a horrible interview. The young lady interviewing was being trained to be an HR rep and thought I'd be a great fit. She didn't know the difference between Java and Javascript.
Tutorials
Running a manual test with Accessibility Insights
This is a post on a great, free accessibility tool.
Fireside Chats
Listening to the autobiography of Fredreck Douglas while coding is a very bad idea.
What would an abolotionist think of a black female software engineer improving the technology of the US Government?
Fireside Chats
What do microagressions look like in the workplace?
It is not in your head. Microagressions and unconcious bias indeed exist in the workplace. Here's how you know.
Design for Devs
How to get your developers involved early in the design process.
Use wireframes and lo-fi prototypes to get developers involved in the software development lifecycle.
Design for Devs
Sketch layers for happy devs!
How to create mockups that will make developers love you.
Tutorials
Building an article list with nunjucks
This is how I built the reusable list of posts on my blog.
Tutorials
Simplest Time to Read plugin ever!
Ever wonder how to calculate the number of minutes it would take to read an article?
Tutorials
Minify your images using Tinify - the adorable panda
Minify your images using Tinify - the adorable panda
Tutorials
Creating a draft process in eleventy.
A nifty feature of Jekyll is the _drafts collection. Eleventy, let's us control our own draft process using Javascript!
Tutorials
Keep your build process grooving by leaving these style refinements last.
After many, many trials and failures, this method has worked for me.
Fireside Chats
Claire Annan answers your interview questions
Are you a hiring manager wondering if I am the right fit for your project? Let me answer your common interview questions.